Video converted to Flash

[hcts]

Hi,

I have a short introduction video that is on my website in a windows media format, web2.wmv.

http://www.dlp-studio.com/

It is about a min and a half and is only about 6 megs in size. It is compiled to 512k Download and the quality is OK. I would really like to have the same video in Flash instead. I have MX2004, but everytime I bring it in with the quality I want, it gets huge, like 40megs+. If I cut the download down to 512K, the image pixelates really bad and I won't accept that.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation of Flash. I have to thing the error is in me as I have seen much longer Flash presentations that were superior in quality. Any help or pointers would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

JDH

 

[brutteforcce]

Try using Sorenson Squeeze...

 

[hcts]

Looks like a good product, I will try it.

JDH

 

[hcts]

Well I have messed with their trial version and it looks good, definatly gets the files down to a much smaller size, but I still get a "blocky" look on the compressed format.

I'll have to keep messing with it and see what I can come up with. I really want to go to flash so that the video is compatable with Macs and Firefox.

 

[hcts]

Well I found a program called Snosh,

http://www.snosh.net,

that did an excellent job of compressing the avi file and tranfering into a reasonable sized flash file.

Thanks.

 

[Speedle]

I know another program that converts video formats to flash. I found it a couple weeks ago. I also like it coz this prog generates HTML code for FLV. Anyway it’s worthy thing..

http://www.geovid.com/Video_to_Flash_Converter

 

[digitalpencil]

Try compressing to a good quality mp4 and then running that through squeeze or riva or any of the others mentioned

 

[bigfoot]

Hi hcts.
How did you make out? Did you find one that works? I'm just getting into doing this.

~BF

 

[encodeflashvideo]

You may want to consider going with Flash 8 video instead of Flash 7. The newer codec in Flash 8/9 gives the double benefit of a much better quality video result, plus lower compressed file sizes (and so less bandwidth used in streaming too).

Flash 8 has been out just over a year now but has moved really quickly and has already achieved something like 90% penetration of all computers, according to Adobe.

The one thing is despite its popularity, there don't seem to be all that many different options out there to create/convert/encode your video into Flash 8 format, and few affordable ones... (i.e., if you just want to do Flash 8 video and don't already have the $700 "Adobe Flash Pro" authoring package)

But here is probably one of the best "all around" solutions I have found and used for the task, and I think maybe also the cheapest:

http://www.createflashvideo.com

As someone mentioned above, there is also Squeeze you can use (another good product), but I believe that ends up costing more when you add in the extra plug-in you need to do Flash 8 video.

Good luck and let us know how it all turned out for you.